January 13, 2020
Navigating The Increasingly Murky Waters Of Trade Finance

Trade finance remains an essential tool for cross-border B2B trade, and with an estimated $1.5 trillion gap in available trade finance, non-bank players have flooded the market to address the...

January 10, 2020
Aflac Acquisition Targets Mid-Market Financing

Aflac Global Investments, the AFL asset management unit of Aflac Inc., has announced a takeover that will position the company to strengthen its financing operations in the middle market. A...

January 10, 2020
SoftBank’s Vision Fund Startups See Spate Of Layoffs

As far as investments go, SoftBank’s Vision Fund’s recent bumps and bruises, and the state of many of its once high-flying holdings, bring to mind that scene in a long-ago...

January 10, 2020
Job Growth Continues For Tenth Consecutive Year

The U.S. economy continues its upward trajectory with 145,000 jobs added in December. This makes for a decade of steady payroll growth, which is the longest stretch in 80 years,...

January 10, 2020
A New B2B FinTech Unicorn, And More Funding Ahead

B2B technology startups continue to gain valuable attention among venture capitalists. In a recent report, seed investors explored why their focus has turned to enterprise startups as opposed to consumer-facing...

January 10, 2020
How SMBs Can Address Late Payments — Before They Happen

Few small businesses (SMBs) are immune to the risk of delayed and late payments. With payment terms an age-old practice in B2B trade, ensuring trust between a buyer and supplier...

January 10, 2020
CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed lawsuits against several companies offering to forgive student loan debt for allegedly obtaining peoples’ data illegally, charging unlawful fees and engaging in...

January 07, 2020
US Backers Rain Money On Savvy Startups 

Despite headline-grabbing startup debacles, U.S. investors are still hot to bankroll up-and-coming companies like challenger bank Chime, The Financial Times (FT) reported on Tuesday (Jan. 7). In nine months, the...

January 06, 2020
India’s Startups Wrap Up 2019 On A High Note

In venture capital, funding can start as a trickle and then wind up as a flood. To that end, as estimated by the research company Tracxn, India-based tech startups attracted...